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Some of the winning images from this year's competition.

Arctic ice cover in 2016 reached the second lowest minimum on record, tied with 2007.

Scientists have recreated the colour patterns of a dinosaur, revealing a camouflage used by animals today.

A large item of debris found off the coast of Tanzania belongs to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Australian investigators confirm.

Nearly 500 horseshoe crabs wash up dead on Japan's southern beaches, near Kitakyushu City, mystifying experts.

The company set up to manufacture Europe's next-generation rocket - the Ariane 6 - says it is open to orders.

Conservationists seek public help to protect the famously inquisitive birds.

Tesla has been criticised by a former business partner for "pushing the envelope" on car safety with its Autopilot technology.

Analysis of rocks in the Western Isles has provided "a tantalising clue" that Mars may contain habitats which can potentially support life.

China is set to launch a second experimental space station Tiangong 2, as it looks to have a manned station by around 2022, state media say.

Diego the tortoise, 100, has fathered around 800 offspring on his native Galapagos Archipelago.

Just keeping an eye on small prostate cancers results in the same 10-year survival rate as treating them, a major study suggests.

A crow that survives only in captivity has been found to adapt and use tools to find food, according to scientists.

A crow that survives only in captivity has been found to adapt and use tools to find food, according to scientists.

Astronomers have discovered signs of a baby planet developing around another star.

The health of the countryside varies depending on how it is measured.

The European Space Agency has released details of the position and brightness of more than a billion stars.

Fifteen stunning images from the Royal Photographic Society's International Images for Science competition

The opening of data sources in agricultural research is needed to deliver the global goal of delivering zero hunger by 2030, say campaigners.

Europe's Gaia space telescope releases its first batch of data as it builds the most precise map ever made of the night sky.